‘Extra Eyes’ will help keep Essex road users safer

11.41 | 11 December 2017 | | 1 comment


The Safer Essex Roads Partnership (SERP) is encouraging road users to submit footage showing dangerous road user behaviour as part of a new campaign to make the region’s roads safer for everyone.

SERP has today (11 Dec) launched the ‘Extra Eyes’ campaign in a bid to reduce crashes – and ultimately save lives – on roads across Essex, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock.

The Extra Eyes webpage provides a simple method for cyclists, motorcyclists and drivers to upload footage showing dangerous or illegal behaviour.

SERP points out that it is not encouraging people to go out in search of poor driving behaviour, or put themselves in danger or break the law to capture footage.

Essex Police will look at the footage and, if appropriate, contact the person caught on camera and explain what the consequences of their actions could have been.

Alternatively, the offender could be offered a driver retraining course, or in serious cases, face prosecution with the footage supplied to be used as evidence.

SERP is hoping that the publicity generated by Extra Eyes will act as a reminder to road users of the need to behave safely and considerately.

Nicola Foster, chair of SERP, said: “Most of the people who use roads across Essex do so responsibly and with care and consideration for other road users.

“However, a small number behave irresponsibly and inconsiderately and are a danger to others.

“As police officers can’t be everywhere, we are asking you to help us identify unsafe behaviours – by sending in your camera footage for review by a police officer.

“Extra Eyes is about raising awareness of the need to behave with consideration to make sure that all road users get home safely.”

Examples showing the type of footage SERP is asking people to submit, along with full guidance covering how to submit footage, are available on the SERP website.


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    If it’s considered the responsibility of everyone to be safe on our roads then why not extend that to the reporting of offenders who drive inconsiderately or dangerously and to the danger not only of themselves but selfishly without regard to any other road user? Let’s see how they like it when the police come calling with video evidence.


    M Worthington, Manchester
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